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/starts playing the original Baldur's Gate trilogy again for the umpteenth time
It's been 20 years and it hasn't stopped being a satisfying experience yet.
The companions in 2 getting fleshed out really helps. 2 lets you start by enraging a brick shithouse of a ranger do he attempts to attack you then immediately recruiting said enraged brick shithouse to go and punch things while shouting about his pet miniature giant space hamster. Which turns out to be accurate and not just one of his mad ramblings despite however many blows to the head he's taken by now.
Then you look up Jim Cummings imdb and realise he also voiced Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, Taz the Tanzmanian Devil, Pete from various Disney productions from the 90s onward, and a whole host of others including many video games.
and obsidian only has the talent to write books, the outer worlds showed they are terrible devs. were they not handed the engine and world on a platter, FNV would have been just as bad as ToW, Fo3 is one great thing that rod howard did.
I have been meaning to pick that one up for ages. How does it hold up compared to Baldur's Gate?
Is not really a trilogy, was BG1 and BG2.
You also expect humans to be the major race in Faerun, yet less then half of the characters are human.
It just does not feel like BG to me. In BG2 you had the main character being tempted with the power of Bhall, and one of the things you are tempted with is the ability to kill things like mind flayer, demons and other stuff like that. You are not suppose to kill everything at level 3.
Sorry for the rant, I like playing BG3 and at the same time I hate how not like BG it feels.
True but I consider ToB to be part 3 even though comparatively it's shorter than 1 and 2 and it has shared content with 2 since you can run Watchers Keep in both [which I often would for the first few floors in BG2 since things like the infinite ammo fire xbow could be bought at the entrance and some other extremely handy items were nearer the top].
Plus story wise the 3 were generally separated that way. 1 is dealing with Sarevok, 2 is Irenicus, 3 are the other Bhaalspawn.
Fucking wot. They literally exist by complete host parasitism and feed exclusively on the brains of sentients... 🙄
He explains that he eats only the brain of bad guys. It just feels forced but I doubt kids will notice at all.
Firetooth, when you want a +4 xbow that never requires ammo for the majority of BG2 because a +4 weapon in general is OP for BG2 but also who can be bothered to reload? Never matters you can't upgrade it until ToB because it will still serve as an excellent weapon for some of the more squishy characters /cough Imoen ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Throne of Bhaal was supposed to be the third installment of the trilogy, but budget and time constraints kinda forced them to squeeze it all into an expansion instead. So yeah, it is a trilogy.